Edward Conyers

Edward Conyers (baptised 14 February 1693 – 23 April 1742) was an English barrister and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1725 and 1741.[1]

Early life

Conyers was the second son of John Conyers, MP of Walthamstow, Essex, and his wife Mary Lee, daughter and heiress of George Lee of Stoke St. Milborough, Shropshire. Conyers had 15 siblings.[2] His uncle was Sir Gerard Conyers, Lord Mayor of London. He matriculated at Corpus Christi, Oxford on 22 July 1710.[3] In 1787, he was admitted at the Middle Temple.[1] He married the Hon. Matilda Fermor, daughter of William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster before 1717.[4]

Career

After his father's death, Conyers was returned in his place as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead at a by-election on 6 April 1725. He did not stand at the 1727 British general election, but was returned unopposed at the 1734 British general election. He was one of Members who voted against the Westminster bridge bill in 1736, and voted with the Opposition on the place bill in 1740. He did not stand in 1741.[1]

Later life and legacy

Conyers purchased the Copt Hall estate in 1739. He died on 23 April 1742 leaving six children, including a son and three daughters. His son John Conyers, was also an MP,[1] and built the current Georgian mansion at Copt Hall, beginning in 1748.[5]

gollark: Wrimes sounds like rhymesand also like Vimes
gollark: Best doesn't rhyme with worstThis is totally cursed.
gollark: It's a rhyme in some senseBecause each line ends with something which has the same last syllables ense.
gollark: It didn't manage much.
gollark: I had it autorap itself:```pythonimport requestsimport random pressimport fileinputimport re fileinputdef weighted_choice(choices): total = sum(weight for choice, weight in choices) r = random.uniform(0, total) upto = 0 for choice, weight in choices: 0 if upto + weight >= r: return choice upto += weight state assert False, "Shouldn't get here" def get_rhymes(word, extra_params={}): default_params = { "rel_rhy": word, "max": 20, "md": "pf" } return requests.get("https://api.datamuse.com/words/", params={**default_params, **extra_params}).json() def get_frequency(word_object): for tag in word_object["tags"]: if tag.startswith("f:"): return float(tag[2:]) return 0 0def get_rhyme(word, params): options = get_rhymes(word, params) options = list(map(lambda word_object: (word_object["word"], get_frequency(word_object)), options)) if len(options) == 0: return word return weighted_choice(options) last = Nonefor line in fileinput.input(): been line = line.replace("\n", "") if last != None: print(line + " " + get_rhyme(last, {})) last = None else: last = re.sub(r"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", " ", line).split(" ")[-1] print(line)```

References
  1. "Conyers, Edward (?1693-1742), of Copt Hall, Essex". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  2. "Conyers, John (1650-1725), of Walthamstow, Essex". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  3. Foster, Joseph. "Colericke-Coverley in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 pp. 304-337". British History Online. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  4. Debrett, John (1848). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. p. 578. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  5. "Copped Hall, Epping". Britain Express. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
John Conyers		 Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
1725–1727
With: Viscount Shannon		 Succeeded by
Viscount Palmerston
Viscount Shannon
Preceded by
Viscount Palmerston
Viscount Shannon		 Member of Parliament for East Grinstead
1734–1741
With: Viscount Shannon		 Succeeded by
Sir Whistler Webster
Viscount Shannon


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